Localization

This package adds multi-language support to your Laravel application:

• Multiple locales configuration
• Localized routes
• Translatable route segments
• Automatic user locale detection

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require outerweb/localization

Add the Outerweb\Localization\Http\Middleware\SetLocale middleware to the web middleware group in app/Http/Kernel.php: This will automatically set the locale for each request by going through the following steps:

1. Check if the locale is set in the URL (e.g. http://example.com/en)
2. Check if the locale is set in a cookie
3. Check for a matching locale in the preferred languages of the user's browser
4. Use the fallback locale

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        // ...
        \Outerweb\Localization\Http\Middleware\SetLocale::class,
    ],
];

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="localization-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    /**
     * The cookies that this package will use internally..
     * If your app already uses some other cookie name,
     * you can change it here to make it more uniform.
     */
    'cookies' => [
        'locale' => 'locale',
    ],

    /**
     * If you prefer to define this in config/app.php,
     * leave this as null. It will then fallback to
     * the app.fallback_locale config value.
     */
    'fallback_locale' => null,

    /**
     * If you prefer to define this in config/app.php,
     * leave this as null. It will then fallback to
     * the app.supported_locales config value.
     */
    'supported_locales' => null,

    /**
     * The name of the translations file in the
     * lang directory. (default: routes.php)
     */
    'translations_file_name' => 'routes',
];

Usage

Defining routes

Define the routes you want to localize like this:

Route::localized(function () {
    Route::get('/', function () {
        return view('welcome');
    })
        ->name('home');
});

This will then generate the home route for each locale you have defined in the supported_locales config value.

For example, if you have defined en and nl as supported locales, the following routes will be generated:

• http://example.com/en (route name: en.home)
• http://example.com/nl (route name: nl.home)

You can also define a fallback route that will redirect to the localized route:

Route::fallback(function () {
    return redirect()->localizedRoute('home');
});

Translating route segments

You can translate each route segment by adding it to the configured translations file in the lang directory.

For example, if you defined a route /about-us and you support the locales en and nl, you can add this to the configured translations files:

In lang/en/routes.php:

return [
    'about-us' => 'about-us',
];

In lang/nl/routes.php:

return [
    'about-us' => 'over-ons',
];

This will then generate the following routes:

• http://example.com/en/about-us (route name: en.about-us)
• http://example.com/nl/over-ons (route name: nl.about-us)

Generating localized URLs

When using localized routes, you cannot use the route() helper to generate URLs. Instead, you can use the localizedRoute() helper:

localizedRoute('home'); // http://example.com/en (route name: en.home)
localizedRoute('blog.show', ['blog' => 'my-blog-post']); // http://example.com/en/blog/my-blog-post (route name: en.blog.show)
localizedRoute('home', [], 'nl'); // http://example.com/nl (route name: nl.home)

As you can see above, this one takes the same parameters as the route() helper.

Getting the localized routes for the current route

You can get the localized routes for the current route like this:

localization()->localizedRoutesForCurrentRoute();

This will for example return the following array if you are on the 'about-us' page:

[
    'en' => 'http://example.com/en/about-us',
    'nl' => 'http://example.com/nl/over-ons',
]

This can be useful if you want to generate a language switcher.

Getting the localized routes for a specific route

You can get the localized routes for a specific route like this:

localization()->localizedRoutesForRoute('home');

In this example, the result would be:

[
    'en' => 'http://example.com/en',
    'nl' => 'http://example.com/nl',
]

This can be useful if you want to tell Google about the other localized versions of a page. (See this article for more information)

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

• Simon Broekaert
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.